HBO's eight-part monthly series recalls the places, the people and the events relevant to eight major strands in America's cultural and social fabric -- cowboys, radio, transportation, sex, journalism, sports, inventions and advertising -- via newsreel clips, period music, theatrical movie sequences, and on-location shootings. Host Dick Cavett steps in and out of historic scenes in this follow-up to his earlier HBO series entitled Time Was.

TV's most-watched history series brings to life the compelling stories from our past that inform our...

Out of the ashes of World War I, a new generation of titan rises…Pierre Du Pont, Walter Chrysler, J....

In keeping with the original project, this series seeks to reframe the country's history by placing ...

Chronicles the lives of Theodore, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, three members of the most prominen...

What does the Ground Zero flag from 9/11 have in common with the original Wright Brothers flying mac...

"Once upon a time ... the Americas" tells us the story of this vast continent, from the very first i...

Since its birth in 1865, in the wake of the American Civil War, the history of the Ku Klux Klan has ...

The history of the rise, rule and fall of the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution...

Explore the Kennedy family's rise to power and how personal relationships within the Kennedy dynasty...

From the 1920s through the 1960s, America transformed from a young country on the rise into a global...

This five-part series traces the story of Asian Americans, spanning 150 years of immigration, racial...

Examines six moments when the collision and collusions of Washington, Franklin, Hamilton, Jefferson,...

Dramatic documentary about the birth of the American Republic and the struggle of a loosely connecte...

Everyone knows the story of Paul Revere and his famous midnight ride to warn colonial forces of the ...

Thirty years after the release of his film JFK (1991), filmmaker Oliver Stone reviews recently decla...

A half century look back at a year marked by the assassinations of MLK and RFK, a contentious presid...

Everything you thought you knew about slavery is about to be challenged. Africans in America: Americ...
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A panoramic overview of the events and people that shaped six of the most important years in America...